Thermal Imaging Camera

[LPC]

My new FLIR One camera came yesterday and so far i'm pretty impressed. Think it's going to be very useful for lots of things I haven't really thought of yet (although I mainly got it to show before/after radiators for powerflushing). It has lots of different settings for different temp ranges etc (inc hottest/coldest to make it very sensitive). It also reads exact surface temperatures making my infrared gun redundant. Here are a few pics I took with it this morning:

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Hot pipe in a wall!

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I've always wanted on of these and now FLIR have brought out the One, it's almost too cheap to not have one!

 

[kay-jay]

How much and where from?


Looks to be decent kit

 

[Paulplumb]

Hot pipe in a wall!

yeah yeah of course it is

 

[LPC]

How much and where from?


Looks to be decent kit

£200; plugs into an iPhone.
Buy FLIR ONE | FLIR Systems

 

[oz-plumber]

yeah yeah of course it is

Does it look like someone relieving themselves to you also?
Not that it's a bad thing - it's probably the first thing I would check too...

 

[P J F PLUMBING]

Got one excellent

 

[stani]

Have been waiting for this after reading about them earlier in year, didn't know they were available yet so have just ordered one.

 

[Nostrum]

I was looking at the compact all in one unit they do, didn't know this existed! Is it well made it does it seem a bit vulnerable to being broken? Does it just hang out of the iPhone port ?

 

[Ermintrude]

Excellent bit of kit

 

[kay-jay]

Wow thats a great price. I was looking at reconditioned hand held thermal imaging cameras and cheapest I could find was about a grand

 

[newcastle phill]

Ive git the jacket on the iphone 5

 

[newcastle phill]

Got rid if the dewalt piece of utter carp

 

[Nostrum]

This is the other one I was looking at

FLIR C2 | eBay

Take the VAT off and it's less than £500 but still a lot more expensive. It looks a bit tougher though and doesn't rely on which phone you have at the time. I'm not sure I like the way t just hangs out of the iphone lightning connector, it doesn't look very secure.

 

[LPC]

It does just hang out of the iphone connector but it is fairly secure IMO. It comes with a little rubber carry case with a lanyard on so when you're not using it it can be stored safely.

I'd say the advantage of this unit over a standalone is that you can easily take pics/videos via your iphone and you instantly have them to email/text etc if needs be. Also it's obviously a lot cheaper!

 

[newcastle phill]

Same resolution as the c2. But the c2 doesnt have MSX what makes a good difference with objects.

Well impressed with it. Would love an E4 with firmware hack but never come up 2nd hand

 

[Nostrum]

Same resolution as the c2. But the c2 doesnt have MSX what makes a good difference with objects.

According to the website it does.
FLIR C2 | FLIR Systems

I was also looking at a second hand iPhone 5 and the one you have, just not sure if it's worth it plus I'd need a SIM card to make it work.

Well impressed with it. Would love an E4 with firmware hack but never come up 2nd hand

You what? :confused5:

 

[newcastle phill]

No sim card needed. Mine works without. Picked the iphone 5 and flir jacket for 200 all together

 

[newcastle phill]

Ahh the flir e4. Doenload the e8 firmware and hack it and it becomes an e8 with 320x240 !!

 

[dancinplumba]

Coming to android soon so it says on website

 

[kris]

Coming to android soon so it says on website

That's amazing value and a very handy piece of kit, about a year ago I was looking to buy a Testo 880-3 camera which is crazy expensive and I couldn't justify the sheer price but the quality is top notch,

 

[stani]

That's amazing value and a very handy piece of kit, about a year ago I was looking to buy a Testo 880-3 camera which is crazy expensive and I couldn't justify the sheer price but the quality is top notch,

This what I was doing but just couldn't justify spending £1000 for a ' nice to have piece of kit' where £200 is quite a justifiable expenditure. Think it should make its money back in a very short time.

 

[LPC]

I think where it'll really shine is showing customers in real time the cold sludge areas in the bottom of the radiators. Powerflushes galore! 🙂

 

[Nostrum]

For me it'd be really handy to measure underfloor pipe spacing.

 

[newcastle phill]

I can say my one can see hot pipes under the floorboards and walls and the route they take and also crapped up radiators. It has its uses.

 

[mutley racers]

Does look very nifty. Think I shall be getting one of these when it comes out for the droids